From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 01:11:26 MDT
On Monday 30 June 2003 17:01, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> > Also can memorys be selectively reactivated. I have heard stories of
> > old
> > Memories long thought lost being reactivated during brain surgury. If
> > so how
> > does one go about developing a map?
>
> AFAIK, those memories turn out to be complete fabrications, and are an
> excellent example of just how little we remember, and how much our brain
> fills in the gaps with pure bullshit.
>
That is an over-simplifcation. Real detail can be extracted accidentally,
come up in dreams, be activated surgery, with hypnosis and so on. Do not
confuse some actual shoddy practices and poor results in a few cases plus
overhype against all reclaimed memory with there being no detail worth or
capable of being extracted.
- samantha
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